Amid global conflicts, the new pope will need to forge new bonds. Experts say he has the background and the skills that will ...

Pope Leo XIV is being scrutinized for how he might interact with the Trump administration after its rifts with the late Pope ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — When Cardinal Robert Prevost emerged from the loggia of St. Peter’s as Pope Leo XIV on Thursday (May 8), ...

A popular Chicago restaurant chain is celebrating the election of Pope Leo XIV with a sandwich named in the pontiff’s honor.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago-area native and former substitute teacher at St. Rita High School, has become the first ...

Pope Leo XIV traveled to several countries as prior general of the Order of St. Augustine between 2001 and 2013 and also as a ...

Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago in 1955, became a novitiate in the Order of St. Augustine at age 22 after graduating from ...

The pontiff held his first meeting with the news media at the Vatican and called on reporters to choose “the path of ...

During her show on Friday, the conservative podcast host said she wasn’t surprised that the new pope had disapproved of ...

The Rev. John T. Pawlikowski served as co-founder and director of the school’s Catholic-Jewish Studies Program and also ...

While it is interesting and perhaps even a point of pride that the new Pope Leo XIV was born in the United States, most of ...